2020 Szent-Györgyi Talent Award Winner Announced

László Nagy, a fellow of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Szeged Biological Research Institute, received this year's Szent-Györgyi Talent Award

The award was presented at a meeting of Nobel laureates and talented students for the 15th time. The event was held online this year with the participation of some 280 students from fifty high schools and their teachers due to the epidemic. At the meeting, Israeli biochemist Ada Yonath, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009, gave a presentation speaking about the next generation of antibiotics.

The Szent-Györgyi Talent Prize always acknowledges a Szeged researcher who – similar to Nobel Prize laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi – also conducted a significant part of their research related to their discovery in Szeged. The prize was first presented in 2013, the prize-winner was Balázs Papp, researcher of the Szeged Center of Biology.

László Nagy earned the recognition for his exploration of the evolutionary origins of hyphae multicellularity using comparative genomic methods. The focus of the expert's interest is on the general regularities of genome evolution, the change in complexity over time and the individual development of fungi, as well as their biotechnological applications.